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Reinventing R.E.M. I enjoyed Josh Tyrangiel's recent article about R.E.M., and I generally agreed with his assessment of the band's last three albums before Accelerate [April 7]. However, I completely disagree with the chart that deems Monster below respectable. Following Automatic for the People, R.E.M. ran the risk of falling into a rut. After two similar-sounding albums, what would its members do next? Their willingness to completely change their sound from mandolins to gutsy electric guitar helped establish R.E.M. as a group not afraid to challenge expectations. It is good to see in their new album that...
...signature style. Backstabbing friends were not provided. This event is only the latest in a long tradition of bizarre world records in the Ivy League. For example, Harvard students held the record for the largest conductor’s baton until The University of Pennsylvania’s band debuted their own rod—over 15 feet long—at their homecoming game last October. And in 1972, a dedicated group of Harvard students set a record for the longest monopoly game, playing for 50 hours in a Currier House elevator. According to the maker of Monopoly...
...Pope's aura Wednesday, telling the crowd of some 13,500 on the South Lawn that he and Laura were privileged to welcome him to the White House and that the world needed his messages of morality and freedom. The theatrics continued with a fife and drum band and a chorus singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic." But by the time Bush held a dinner in Benedict's honor Wednesday night, with the Pope not attending (the Pontiff does not attend dinners given in his honor), it started to look as if Bush was laying it on a bit thick...
...through the song “Bulbes.” The cast also included Eliora Noetzel ’10, producer Rory M. Sullivan ’09, and Dani Green ’09 of the Longy School of Music. No Yiddish play would be complete without a band to showcase some original tunes. Harvard’s own “L’Chaim Lounge Band”—compromised of Seth Flaxman ’08, Tom Wooten ’08, and Jason Schnier ’11—did just this...
...We’re an independent band and we understand the unique mentality that these sorts of independent bookstores have on people’s lives—independent bands and stores and artists can really have an impact,” she said...